Greece Tourism

Executive Talk: “Greek tourism is unique and will resist to the world financial crisis”

Despite the deepening of the financial crisis, Greece remains optimistic about its tourism evolution.

Greece

Greek airline union grounds scores of flights in 24-hour strike

Athens - Greek state carrier Olympic Airlines cancelled around 100 domestic and international flights on Thursday as air traffic controllers and flight crews launched a 24-hour strike in protest again

GeorgiaSkies

New airline to offer Atlanta-Athens flights

An airline new to Georgia plans to launch service Sept. 29 with flights to Atlanta from Macon and Athens.

Greece tourist's beating

Dead tourist's father slams bail decision

The father of an Australian tourist beaten to death outside a nightclub in Greece expressed his frustration at a decision to release three of those charged on bail.

Greece

Greece vows to crack down on crime among tourists

ATHENS - Greece vowed to crack down on crime among holidaymakers at its coastal resorts on Thursday, after a young Australian man was left brain dead by a beating from nightclub workers on the island

Zakynthos

Brit tourists in sex game disgrace

Nine British women who took part in an oral sex competition while on holiday on the Greek island of Zakynthos are facing charges of prostitution.

USAID Working Together To Stimulate Economy Through Tourism

Greek partnership aims to develop Balkan region and beyond

WASHINGTON, DC - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and its Greek counterpart, Hellenic Aid, are working together to stimulate the economy in Southeast Europe through tourism.

Europe-Greece Earthqueke

No tourists hurt in Greece quake

ATHENS, Greece (eTN) - The Ministry of Tourism of Greece and the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) has announced that more information has surfaced regarding the earthquake that struck the south-western part of the country yesterday.

No Tourists Are In Danger

Earthquake rocks Greece

A quake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale with a depth of only 10 kilometers below ground surface occurred at 3:25 pm EET - Eastern European Standard Time, according to the Athens Observatory.

Dollar? What Dollar? It's Euro Against Pound In Europe

Euro causing drop in UK tourists to Greece

Greece expects a big drop in the number of tourists this year from Britain, its most frequent visitors, because of the strong euro, Tourist Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos warned Tuesday.

Like other Mediterranean economies with major tourism, Greece was set to suffer from a "financial crisis in Europe" and the euro's strength against the ... read more

Mid East

Eastern Med tourism from Australia bring good news

The media including the travel industry media tends to have an almost obsessive focus on negative stories from the Eastern Med including the conflict between Israel and the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip and the internal problem in Lebanon. While these problems are very real there remains a lot of positive news.

SETE

Greek tourism faces tough '08 on strong Euro, slow growth

ATHENS - Greece's tourism industry faces a tough 2008 as the strong euro and a slowdown in the global economy threatens to curtail the number of tourist arrivals this year, the head of an industry group said Thursday.

Australia

Eastern Mediterranean: A top pick for Australians

The media including the travel industry media, tends to have an almost obsessive focus on negative stories from the Eastern Med including the conflict between Israel and the Hamas dominated Gaza Strip and the internal problem in Lebanon. While these problems are very real there remains a lot of positive news.

Globe 2008

Rome's Globe08: A rousing success

ROME (eTN) – The official figures have not been released yet, but by all accounts, this year’s edition of Rome’s foremost international exhibition Globe was a success.

Greece

Tourist boat runs aground in Greece

POROS, Greece: Greek authorities evacuated more than 300 people — mainly Americans, Japanese and Russians — from a tourist ship after it ran aground Thursday in choppy seas off an island near Athens. There were no reports of injuries.

Olympic Airlines

EU court rules against Greece in airline case

BRUSSELS/ATHENS - Greece failed to comply with a European Commission decision that aid to Greek carrier Olympic Airlines was illegal and should be recovered, a top European Union court ruled on Thursday.

Olympic Airlines

Greece wants foreign airline as Olympic investor

ATHENS, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Greece wants a foreign airline to invest in Olympic Airlines [OLY.UL] as part of its attempt to privatise the ailing carrier, Transport Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said in an interview published on Saturday.

Greece and Turkey to benefit from Bulgaria's future losses in tourism

Turkey and Greece will most probably win billions of EUR from tourism after the realization of Burgas - Alexandroupolis pipeline project, says an analysis, reported by the Standart daily.

Lately Bulgarian tourism has been making about 2 billion EUR profits per year according to official information of local hoteliers and tourist ... read more